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The letter itself expresses Helen’s eagerness to visit Alice, mentions a winter party, and recounts her health struggles, offering a personal glimpse into the daily concerns of a woman in the 1890s.
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth: @date_1866, death: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", location: @staten_island}
@helen_king:person {full_name: "Helen King", relation: "correspondent", location: @flushing}
@flushing:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@clifton:place {city: "Staten Island", state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@worlds_columbian_exposition:event {year: @date_1893, description: "World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago"}
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@social_life:concept {description: "Victorian-era social activities"}
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@file_1893_11ish_1007_hkg_copy_jpg -> contains -> @letter_1893_11_16FLUSHING NOV 16 7AM 1893 N.Y. Miss E. Alice Austin Clifton Staten Island New York
Wednesday Dear Mrs. Austen, I received your note several days ago—but delayed answering hoping I would be able to select a night when I could surely get down to see you—I have
You are so encouraged, I can probably come down. I am writing in great haste as I am just about going out to a winter party and I ask you to let me know when or this evening when you will be at home. The week next season has opened here. I have been in such a mad love since the first of September that I haven't had any pleasure in life. I have so many things to tell you about that I am afraid I shall never catch up. So far as I now know, I have nothing at all on for next week and any night that
To be seen & and which I heard in keeping my note to the Grindstone so that I never know when I shall have a free evening I want to see you.—Then our lots of things to free your week—(Thursday?) I will come down if I mean, I have begun to gather— Austria— Of course you have never approached the infirm regions nor even will, so it is impossible that you should be able to realize the condition I have been in for the last three months. It was uncertain whether I should go to the fair, up to three o'clock on the day we want—It was only two or three letters kept me each hour from interruptions & distractions by this barely coming past hoping to see you. Yours Helen Mr.
had succumbed to morphine, my brain has been troubling heavily and I have been in from most of the time, during October. The thing I know for sure is that it was only because I have not been to my labours have not been worrying about pecuniary as they have been and continuous in charges have occurred which alter the outlook somewhat (whether for better or worse remains at that time that I found I could tear myself away at six and then I simply had to drop everything & run. I was gone from Tuesday night to Monday morning and had a fine time, but returned to find things here worse than when I went away and from that moment up to now I have hardly had a real peaceful moment, even when my other senses
No children (leaf entity)